Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-13

running tlpes leading TO a collecting loop
or cylinder fused for eight-page sheetsl,
ot which point their speed is increased,
and the separate sheets break away IRON,
their companions which follow them ana
hurry on toward the upper part ot the
folder, from whence they pass down III
front of the folding "triangle. ." Ims
ingenious but simple device is triangular
in form. and its shape is such that, rs the
sheets glide smoothly down 1t, their outer
edges are curved downward and inward
until. on leaving the triangle, they grad
ually meet between a pair OF rollers, thus
receiving an up-and-down iold IN the
centre OF the margin between the pages
which brings them TO page size.
These once folded sheets are hardly
clear of the triangle when they are seized
bv the fingers of folding cylinder ana
carried down over pair of revolving
rollers. Just as the centre Of the sheets
reach these rollers rotating folding g-blade
in the cylinder suddenly runs outward
and strikes the sheets and forces them
down in between the two rollers, which
ninand draw the doubled sheets through,
folded across the columns to hali'page
size. A switchisplaced just below these
i rollers. and can be set so as TO direct the
sheetsas they issue from them either to the
RIGHT or the left. ii the sheets are 20 be
delivered half-page, or carrier size, they
90 10 the left and drop in succession into
p series of curved arms, which revolye IN
unison with the sheets, and which de-
post them gently in a neat pile on
slowly moving apron.
If the sheets are to be folded for mail
inc the switch directs them to the right,
and thev pass down into bGsket-folder,
which is kind of modified triangle, and
are again folded at right angles to quar-
ter-paqe or mail SIZE, and are piled by
revolving curved arms in the same man
ner as the half-page size.
FOR EIGHr.PAGE EDITIONS.
For eight-page papers the first type
cylinder will carry the plates for pages
4 and ). 2 and 7, and the second cylinder
will carry pages and 6, and ., and the
web of paper when printed from then
will be cut into four-page sheets as be
fore. one sheet containing pages 4, ant
3. 6. aud the other 2. Z and !, 8. Ih'
collecting cylinder, which is one OF thu
most curious contrivances OF the whole
machine, is now brought into play, an'
the first sheet to reach it has pages an'
5on its lower surface and 3 and on 1t
upper surface. This sheet IS by mean
III n switch carried once around by tn
cvlinder, and is then met by tn
second sheet containing the other fou
pages, with pages and s on its uppe
surface. and which will exactly overll
+ tine first sheet. This last sheet has re
ceiyed from paste wheel running III
trough a line Of paste along It's centr
: margin on its under side, and this past
line causes it to adhere to the first sheet
5 and completes the eight-page paper
: These uni ed sheets are now switche
! of from the collecting cylinder an
folded down the centre by the triangl
: and across the page by the folding cyhr
: der, and piled in the same manner
the four-page sheets
The Dispatcb's History.
h In October, 1850, Mr.. James A. @
r wardin, practical printer, who had
b trimming under Thomas Ritchie, and wi
: had Lad experience as publisher OF u
n Times and Compiler, formed a partne
ship with his old comrade OF the Coh
IS pHcr, W. Fl. Davis (also a practic
II printer, and they resolved to try aga
o the enterprise of a newspaper that Is
|. paper in which current news should ha